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known as Svartans; and Morio’s a youkai-kitsune.
    Delilah, my middle sister, is a two-faced Were. She resembles our mother, who died when we were still very young. Delilah turns into a golden tabby when stressed, and at the call of the full moon. And she turns into a black panther when duty calls or she gets too angry. She’s a Death Maiden, serving under the Autumn Lord, and Shade is her fiancé.
    And Menolly, a
jian-tu
-turned-vampire, is the youngest. Married to her werepuma wife, Nerissa, she’s also the official consort for Roman, the son of Blood Wyne, the Vampire Queen, as well as his heir. He re-sired her, and it’s created an odd blip in their relationship, but they’ll work it through. They have to.
    When we were first sent over Earthside, we expected to be on an enforced sabbatical—a vacation in Siberia, if you will. What actually happened was that we found ourselves planted squarely on the front lines of a demonic war. And we also discovered that we love our mother’s home world as much as we love our father’s and our own home.
    As I said—we’re caught in a demonic war. Shadow Wing, the current ruler in the Subterranean Realms, is doing his best to break through the portals that keep the demons from invading Earthside and Otherworld. He aims to ravage through the land and exert his control over all three realms. He’s also wacked—and has been called the Unraveller. If the Demon Lord succeeds, billions of people will die or be enslaved: Fae, human, and Crypto alike. Shadow Wing has managedto establish fronts in both OW and ES—overtly in Otherworld where war is brewing, and covertly here Earthside, where his operatives are working behind the scenes to open up the portals.
    Here, Earthside, we’ve gathered a huge assortment of friends and extended family who now know about Shadow Wing. To the last, they’ve pledged to fight him. And back in Otherworld, we’re working with the elves, the unicorns, and some of the Fae.
    We need to find the last two spirit seals—we’ve found seven so far, and lost two of them, so we have only five. The spirit seals, gems that once were joined together to form an ancient artifact, can—when reunited—rip open the portals and allow Shadow Wing full entrance into both of our worlds.
    Now that he has two of them, Shadow Wing’s starting to make ripples in the fabric of space and time that keep the worlds separated. If he gains any more, the tide may turn in his favor, since his armies are united, and ours are still scrambling to figure out the best defense.
    To be honest, we don’t know if we can stop him. But as long as we have the breath to fight, we’ll keep up the battle. Because if Shadow Wing wins, we
all
lose. And the thought of both of our beloved worlds going down in flames, well, that thought is more than we can bear.
    “What the fuck just happened?” Delilah stared at the toppled gravestones before hurrying over to Chase’s side.
    I joined her, just as confused as she was. “I think…something just sucked the spirits out of this cemetery. Kind of like a giant vacuum cleaner.”
    “What would do that? And why?” She reached down to give Chase her hand, and I took his other side. We lifted him to his feet, and he draped his arms around our shoulders. “You okay? What’s wrong with your leg?”
    “I caught my foot in a hole when I was running from a bone-walker. I don’t know if it’s broken, but it hurts like hell.” He sighed. “I’m not even going to pretend I can walkon my own. But can you find my men? Two officers were out here with me. I lost track of them when we split up. They went down a different path to check out a noise we heard, and I haven’t heard from them since.”
    Morio motioned to Smoky. “You and the girls go look for his men. I’ll carry him back to the parking lot. Shade, come with me, in case we meet any stragglers.”
    Shade nodded. Chase let out a
“Huh?”
as Morio, still in his demonic form, lifted the